It would not be a summer weekend without a couple of highway closures, and busy routes in the southeast and southwest of the Twin Cities will be shut down.
Both directions of Interstate 494 in Inver Grove Heights will be closed between Blaine Avenue and Babcock Trail in the vicinity of Hwy. 52. Motorists will be detoured from 10 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday, the Minnesota Department of Transportation said.
Westbound I-494 drivers will be sent north on Hwy. 52 to Mendota Road, then south on Hwy. 52 back to I-494.
Drivers heading east on I-494 will go south on Hwy. 52 to 70th Street, then back north to I-494.
Crews will be demolishing the northbound Hwy. 52 bridge over I-494. When roads reopen Monday, all Hwy. 52 traffic will run head-to-head on the new southbound bridge between Upper 55th Street and Mendota Road.
In Eden Prairie, both directions of Hwy. 5 will be closed from 10 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday between Eden Prairie Road and Mitchell Road.
The same segment of Hwy. 5 also will be closed Aug. 1-4 as crews continue with a concrete repair project.
In Minneapolis, westbound Hwy. 55 will be shut down from 10 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday between Penn Avenue and Hwy. 100.
